I am trying to install ruby on docker. I could install the 1.9 versions but it is not possible to install the latest version such as 2.2.0 and above. I am actually trying to set up calabash on docker. Have tried this. Whenever I try to install calabash-android in it getting the error
ERROR: Error installing calabash-android:
luffa requires Ruby version >= 2.0.
You could start view a dockerfile starting with:
FROM ruby:2.3.0
That would use the docker image ruby, with ruby already installed.
If you're starting FROM a different base Docker instance, you can simply RUN commands that install Ruby from your base instance's package management system. For example, this GitHub Gist shows how to use apt-get to install Ruby on a Ubuntu instance:
# Pull base image.
FROM dockerfile/ubuntu
# Install Ruby.
RUN \
apt-get update && \
apt-get install -y ruby
And this Gist shows a Dockerfile that's configured to install RVM and Ruby on a Ubuntu instance:
FROM ubuntu
RUN apt-get update
# basics
RUN apt-get install -y openssl
# install RVM, Ruby, and Bundler
RUN \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
RUN /bin/bash -l -c "rvm requirements"
RUN /bin/bash -l -c "rvm install 2.0"
RUN /bin/bash -l -c "gem install bundler --no-ri --no-rdoc"
This makes ruby available for any future RUN command and not just bash:
FROM debian:stretch-slim
RUN \
apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests curl bzip2 build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev && \
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
curl -L https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build/archive/v20180329.tar.gz | tar -zxvf - -C /tmp/ && \
cd /tmp/ruby-build-* && ./install.sh && cd / && \
ruby-build -v 2.5.1 /usr/local && rm -rfv /tmp/ruby-build-* && \
gem install bundler --no-rdoc --no-ri
Low reputation so I can't comment inline (all those years of lurking, sigh), but in case anyone else happens across this while searching for ways to install old ruby versions to docker, I found @grosser's answer very helpful - it worked where trying to install via RVM simply wouldn't, at least for me.
I would, however, recommend using the recommended approach for installing ruby-build - the following worked for me:
<prior steps>
RUN git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git && \
PREFIX=/usr/local ./ruby-build/install.sh && \
ruby-build -v 2.4.1 /usr/local && \
gem install bundler -v <VERSION HERE> --no-ri --no-rdoc && bundle install
<following steps>
Key point here is that this keeps you up to date with ruby-build instead of being hard-coded to the 2018-03-29 version as in @grosser's comment.
Thanks to @Jacob and @grosser, I've managed to set up mine in a similar, if a bit more unpacked way:
# Install Local ruby
RUN git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv \
&& echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc \
&& echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
ENV HOME /home/jenkins # Change this dir as needed.
ENV PATH "$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$HOME/.rbenv/shims:$PATH"
ENV RUBY_VERSION 2.6.3
RUN mkdir -p "$(rbenv root)"/plugins \
&& git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build
RUN rbenv install $RUBY_VERSION
RUN rbenv global $RUBY_VERSION && rbenv versions && ruby -v
# RUN curl -fsSL https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv-installer/raw/master/bin/rbenv-doctor | bash # Uncomment this to get rbenv to validate your setup.
If you want to use things like bundle install and don't use a base image with pre-installed devtools like Ubuntu, you need to install these packages:
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y ruby ruby-dev ruby-bundler build-essential
RUN apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
